painting

2015

butterflies / transformation (it all makes sense)

acrylic on birch, 24"x48"

december 2015

swamp horse / as above, so below (precipitations)

acrylic, india ink, and spit on birch / 41"x48" / october 27, 2015 / painted ambidextrously

view from a wolf's den with la loba

acrylic and white india ink on birch / 48"x42" / october 28, 2015 / painted ambidextrously

this painting was started in 2012 and never completed. i returned to it in september of 2015 after a ritual invoking the spirit of la loba (the wild wolf woman) in which we ran through the woods with la loba and a wild wolf to our place in the forest. reaching "my place" was one of the clearest visions i had during this trance, and the previous permutation of this piece resembled that vision in a lot of ways. so, using my lessons from la loba, i took an old, seemingly dead, skeleton - saved what was of use to me, and blacking out the rest - and brought it back to life.

two teeth and two incidents

acrylic on birch / 7"x4" / september 2015

alchemy

acrylic and drawing ink on birch / 48"x42" / september 12, 2015 / painted ambidextrously

(a rebirth of the piece "land in sea, simultaneously," 2012)

alchemy is an ambidextrous effort
i need both of my hands
to pick up my scattered bones
to put myself together
to build my branches thicker
to hold all of the birds
why am i still holding out a whole hand
when you haven't sung a word?
i could be holding my own hand
holding the hands of other girls
but there's something about your wings, my dear
that keeps one branch reserved
i'm taking back my whole hand
but i can still hold you up
i need both of my hands, sweet one
to leaf gold
to catch the sun

left handed sheep skull study

acrylic and drawing ink on birch / 6"x48" / september 6-11, 2015

left handed sheep skull study (left side)

acrylic and drawing ink on birch / september 8, 2015

left-handed sheep skull study (back and front)

acrylic and drawing ink on birch / september 6, 2015

left-handed deer skull study

acrylic and drawing ink on pine / appx 12"x16" / september 7, 2015

2012

cavalcave

acrylic on birch, 48"x42"

a death and rebirth

acrylic on oak, 48"x24"

land in sea, simultaneously

acrylic on birch, 48"x42"

monkey and bear/mt. meru

acrylic on birch, 48"x42"

as above, so below (precipitations)

acrylic on birch, 41"x48"

2011

denim mountain/blurred borders

acrylic on birch, 48"x42"

denim mountain/blurred borders (detail)

acrylic on birch

the path

oil on pine, 60"x20"

copy of paul cezanne's 'the bathers'

oil on cardboard

during a semester in aix-en-provence, france - the area cezanne lived and worked - my mentors gave me immense exposure to the world of french impressionism. i immersed myself in the culture and experience of the rich, historical town i was fortunate enough to live in.